Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 209 Like a Friend

"Professor Quirrell's two trolls have been locked on the third basement level, originally intended to be placed there along with Dumbledore's own arrangements..." Professor McGonagall said. "It's strange that this happened; they were both chained up, I really don't know how they managed to break free."

"You mean there are two trolls?" Murphy was stunned.

His crows were almost everywhere in the school, so he could observe many of the school's secrets.

Most of the tasks in Tom's Guidebook came about in this way. Murphy didn't have any prophetic abilities; he was just exploiting an information gap.

However, there weren't many windows underground, so the crows didn't like going there and their numbers were small. If Professor McGonagall hadn't told him, he wouldn't have known there were two giants down there.

To be honest, in the original story there were indeed two giant monsters. One was defeated by the three little ones today, and the other was the one who was guarding the Philosopher's Stone at the end, and was killed by Quirrell himself.

However, since a giant monster appeared today in the original story, he didn't consider this possibility.

"Yes, one is smaller and not yet an adult, while the other is fully grown, very strong, and extremely ferocious. We must control it immediately, or we don't know what kind of damage it will cause."

Murphy frowned, just as he was about to give Tom a hint through the Book of Guidance, when he suddenly received a visual image.

Tom seems to have been knocked away?

……

"No!!"

"Tom!"

Harry watched helplessly as his friend was sent flying by the troll right before his eyes, filled with rage. Without hesitation, he drew his wand and instinctively uttered the spell Tom had used: "Expelliarmus!"

However, he hadn't practiced the Disarming Charm much before, and this only produced a tiny red spark that struck the tall figure, not even enough to tickle it.

However, he still attracted the attention of the giant.

The giant bent down and looked at the three little ones.

"Meat," it said, drool dripping down its face.

"Harry, run! This guy's hungry!" Hermione yelled.

The troll stretched out a hand and grabbed at Harry, who rolled away and crawled right past him.

He went down the corridor and immediately spotted Tom in the far corner.

"I'll distract it! You guys go save Tom!" Harry yelled, then picked up a fallen faucet and smashed it at the giant monster. "Come on! You big oaf! Come and eat me, you big dummy!"

The troll couldn't understand what Harry was saying, but it sensed that Harry was provoking it. It snorted angrily, turned around, and chased after Harry.

"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed in horror, not knowing what to do for a moment.

"Quick, let's go see Tom!" Ron said, grabbing Hermione and running towards the corner.

Tom felt like he was going to die.

Although he instinctively used the armor charm he had obtained from the mission reward at the last moment, his armor charm was not very complete due to the haste. Moreover, the giant monster that ambushed him was much stronger than the first one.

A blow came and sent him flying more than ten meters away; even the armor spell couldn't completely negate the damage.

He felt as if all the bones in his body had been smashed.

"Tom!" Hermione and Ron ran over, overjoyed. "You're alive!"

The two men helped him up. "Can you walk?"

Tom stood up and only then realized that one of his legs seemed to be broken, but strangely, he didn't feel much pain. "Where's Harry?"

"He's lured the giant away. Let's hurry and get the professor; he can't hold on much longer..."

Tom looked up and saw Harry frantically dodging XZ at the end of the corridor. Thanks to his Quidditch training, he was very agile, and several times when he was about to be hit, he simply ducked and rolled away to avoid it.

But this can't go on, it's too dangerous. The troll's club isn't a ball; if it hits you, it's not just a matter of breaking a few bones.

"No, we have to go help him..." Tom said.

He couldn't walk anymore; if this continued, Harry would inevitably be hit before they even found the professor.

Harry doesn't know the Armor Charm, and his wand isn't made of snakewood; if he gets hit by it, he'll die.

"Give me your wands," he said suddenly.

"What?"

But Hermione and Ron still handed their wands to Tom, who then clasped his two wands together with theirs.

The magic wand is like an antenna; the more antennas there are, the stronger the signal will be.

Mr. Murphy, I hope you are right.

"Harry! Run this way!" Tom shouted.

Magic is like flowing water; the closer the distance, the greater the power.

Harry heard Tom's shouts. He was exhausted and covered in sweat. He didn't know what Tom was going to do, but at that moment, he decided to trust his clever friend.

He rolled away again under the troll's attack, burrowed behind it, and then ran towards the three of them, while the troll immediately turned and chased after him.

60 feet, 50 feet, 40 feet...

Suddenly, two hands reached out and pressed against the four wands. "Tom, what spell?"

Tom glanced at his two companions beside him, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Wizards are like power sources; the more power sources you have, the stronger the power output!

"We've all learned the Levitation Charm!"

Tom immediately thought of the spell they had just learned together in class. All three of them knew the spell and used it quite well.

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

"Yugadimurleviosa!!!"

The moment Harry passed by them, three voices shouted at the same time.

In an instant, a surge of magical power burst forth, and the resonance of the magic of the three little wizards and the four wands made the entire third-floor corridor tremble. Suddenly, not only did the wooden stick in the troll's hand slip out of its control, but the troll itself was also lifted up by the levitation charm.

"Awooo! Awooo!"

The giant was like a turtle that had been flipped over, its limbs flailing wildly in the air, unable to touch the ground no matter what it did. It screamed in terror, but could not move even a centimeter.

"We did it!" Hermione exclaimed in delight. "Look! We've floated the troll!"

Ron's hand was still on his wand. "God."

He seemed to be savoring the spell he had just recited, and after a while said, "It turned into a giant balloon."

"Troll Balloon..." Harry came over, panting. "He almost turned me into a Quaffle!"

"Hahaha... Quaffle..." Ron burst out laughing. "Weren't you just a running ball?"

Even Tom couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Then he heard Harry's words and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

Quake, pfft.

"Oh, man, you're finally smiling!" Ron suddenly said.

“You always laugh, but you’re like a Slytherin,” Ron laughed, putting his hand on his shoulder for the first time. “But now, it’s different.”

"So what do I look like now?" Tom asked curiously. "Gryffindor?"

"Now..." Ron thought for a moment.

"Like a friend."

……

The guidebook in Tom's arms suddenly vibrated.

Side Quest: Make Friends! Completed!

"Task progress: 3/2. Overachieved!"

"Quest Reward: Aphrodisiac Recipe"

"Bonus Bonus: Petrification Spell!"

"Congratulations! Congratulations!"

Dumbledore's Mirror of Darkness was still outside at Christmas, meaning his trap was placed behind the trapdoor after Christmas. Quirrell's troll is also strange. If Quirrell placed it behind the trapdoor and let it escape, the troll would have to overcome several professors' traps, climb from deep underground to the fourth floor, evade Fluffy in the fourth-floor corridor, and reach the underground classroom—this is more than just a troll; it's more formidable than Quirrell himself, who couldn't even get past Fluffy. Therefore, it can be inferred that the troll wasn't placed behind the trapdoor as a trap at Halloween, but rather kept somewhere underground—in this case, their escape wouldn't be particularly surprising, otherwise the professors would have known there was a mole and could easily have exposed Quirrell. This is also why Murphy was able to participate in the Philosopher's Stone project after the start of the semester; at that time, several professors' traps were still incomplete. In fact, at the beginning of the semester, the only confirmed completed trap was Hagrid's Fluffy. After all, Dumbledore's trap was at the very back; if he didn't place it there, how could the other professors set their own traps? However, there should have been some traps at this point, otherwise Snape wouldn't have needed to be so anxious to check their status. Therefore, this is a contradiction in the original work. To avoid conflict, I've had the protagonist participate in setting traps early on. As for when the other professors set their traps, since the original work doesn't say, we don't know either, so to avoid further conflict, I'll simply leave it at that.

(End of this chapter)